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Moline

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Moline , city (1990 pop. 43,202), Rock Island co., NW Ill., on the Mississippi River, in a coal area; inc. 1848. It is a transportation and industrial center, and has been a major producer of farm machinery since the industrialist John Deere moved there in 1847. Other manufactures are elevators and industrial equipment. A military arsenal is nearby. Moline, with Rock Island and Davenport and Bettendorf , Iowa, is part of a regional economic unit called the Quad Cities.

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Moline

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Moline, USA Cities in Illinois, Kansas, and Ohio have this name from the Spanish molino ‘mill’.

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moline

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

moline •align, assign, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, condign, confine, consign, dine, divine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, malign, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, swine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine •Sabine • carbine • Holbein • woodbine •concubine • columbine • turbine •sardine • Aldine • muscadine •celandine • anodyne • androgyne

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